New drive to vaccinate students begins in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Minister of Health Robin Swann speaks to media outside Queen’s University Belfast’s Lanyon Building during a campus vaccine initiative at the university (Liam McBurney/PA)

A series of walk-in clinics have begun offering first-dose vaccinations to students in campuses across Northern Ireland.

The North's health minister Robin Swann said the new Jabbathon drive was an effort to make the vaccine more accessible to the younger generations.